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VOL. WDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1890. NO. 34. A MENACE TO LIBERTY!I A CONCISE STATEMENT OF THE MEANING OF THE FORCE BILL. A Mighty Argument Againsta Most Dan gerous Measure that Should Convince the Most Rabid Republican that it Should Not Become a Law. The Federal Elections bill gives to Republican Federal officers the control of all elections. It takes from the States the substance of the right, re served in the Constitution, to deter mine and judge of the qualifications of voters. It is a partisan measure, and the assertion that it is to secure full and free elections is mere pretense. How intensely partisan it is is shown by the fact that the bill provides that it shall go into operation at the coming fall election. The chief supervisors are to be appointed for life, and, as the electoral machinery is put into their hands, it will be for years under the control of republican partisans no matter what may be the character of the Administration. THE MOTiVE OF THE BILL. The motive of the bill is therefore bad. It is intended to control at Washington the return of Congress men. The business of choosing their representatives is transferred from the people to the partisans of the admin istration. For hundreds of years all elections to English-speaking parlia ments have been conducted by the officers of the locality where the voting has taken place. In England the writ for an election is received by the sheriff of the county, and the proceedings are in charge of the returning officers of the counties and boroughs. The stat utes regulating the procedure date back to the reign of Henry VI. So firmly fixed is the traditional right of the people of the locality to conduct their own elections, that only a year ago Mr. Rowell, the Republican author of the worst features of the pending bill, complained bitterly, in the contested election case of Smalls and Elliot, that the election officers of South Carolina are appointed by the Governor. Now it is intended by this man and his party that the power shall come from a very much remoter source-from Washington. The change is to be hastened, too, in order that it may be made while Quay is at the head of the party. Therefore, in con sidering the bill, we are forced to judge it by what the master of corruption may accomplish under its provisions. THE FOUNDATION OF THE BILL. All Congressional legislation must find its warrant in the Constitution. There can be no difference of opinion in the proposition that the States alone have the right to declare who shall be voters. The only limitation upon this right is that suffrage shall not be denied to any one on the ground that he is a negro or was a slave. No one has a right to vote for a Congressman unless he is a voter of the State. The Con stitution says that the electors who shall'vote for representatives in Con gress "in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature." This means that every one who is permitted by the laws of the State of New York to vote for mem bers of Assembly may vote for mem bers of Congress. As the voting is done under the laws of the State, State officers have invariably conducted elections. It is now proposed that the = -all be administered by United States officers. The clause of the Constitution on which the makers of this new law depend is that which provides that Congress may make or alter the regulations which the States are directed to prescribe concerning the "manner of holding elections." This provision was adopted as a pre cautionary measure, and in order to uard against a possible refusal of a State to provide for the election of Congressmen. The resolution adopted by the State of New York concerning this clause on ratifying the Constitu tion shows what was intended. New York's resolution was as follows: In full confidence that the Congress will not make or alter any regulations in this State respecting the times, manner and place of holding elections for Senators or Representatives, unless the Legislature of this State shall neglect or ref ure to make laws or reg ulations for the purpose, or from any circumstances be incapable of making the same, and that in those cases such power will duly be exercised until the Legislature of this State shall make prov'ision in the premises. It may be added that if the United States officers have the power to take charge of elections for Representatives they may also enter the State Legisla ture and supervise and superintend the choice of Senators, for the Consti tution also gives to Congress the right to make or alter the regulations con cerning the "manner of holding elec tions for Senators." It having been, therefore, the imme morial usage of the people of each locality to conduct their own elections, and it being also the right of the States to interpret their own laws, among them those which determine who shall vote for Congressmen, let us see how these immemorial usages and these rights of the State are affected by the Federal Elections bill. The officer who is-to be in charge of elections is called the chief supervisor of elections. There is to be one for each judiciaL district. New Ycork would hav-e thfee-one in the city of New York, one in Biooklyn and one in the central or western part of the State. He is a judicial officer, for he is a United States Commissioner. He is to have charge of the Federal officers who are to be appointed to control elections. He is to examine voters under oath and receive returns. He is to have charge of the deputy marshals appointed to assist him, and will have absolute power to order arrests. The bill applies to State as to Fedle ral elections. Its language is: 'Elec tions at which Representatives of Del egates in Congress are voted for." As is well known, Congressmen and State officers are voted for at the same elec tions. In this State they are voted for on the same ballot, and under our re formed ballot law there is only one ballot-box at each polling place. There are to be three supervisors, subordi nate to the chief supervisor, two of whom shall be of the same politieal pry, and these supervisors are to con duct the election. A partisan could appoint two sound Republicans and one Democrat who was a cripple or two ill to be at the polls. The bill provides, in such a case, that all the duties shall be performed by the two remaiuing supervisors. In other words, the two Republican supervisors are to manage the election. All that these supervisors do must affect the election for State and local officers as well as of Congressmen. -wIIEN SUJPERtVIsORS AR~E APPIOINTEO. Supervisors may be appointed on the request to the chief supervisor of 100 persons in any city or town having 20,000 inhabitants or upward, in any en tire Congressional district no part of which, is within any city or town of 20,000 inhabitants and upward, or on the request of fifty persons "in any one or more counties or parishes in any Congressional district," In a Congressional district consist ing of half a dozen counties, two Repub lican and four Democratic. the polls in the two I)emocratic counties could be manned by Republican supervisors, who need not be residents of the coun ties, but might be brought from dis tan' parts of the district. In the other counties the machinery of elections would be in the hands of local officers. The bill, therefore, is a device by which the Republicans may manage all elec tions, no matter what may be the poli tics of a community. Arrangements are made in the bill whereby local party committees may name the supervisors, so that the most serviceable party workers may be qm ployed. This is affected by a provision authorizing persons to apply to the chief supervisor for appointments. Care is taken also that supervisors may be appoinced on the very eve of an election, in order, doubtless, that if it be necessary complaints against the character of the appointees may be avoided. The chief supervisor is permitted to name double the number of Supervi sors that can be required in his whole judicial district, in this way the Re publican party can pay an army of workers at the polls from the Federal Treasury. Supervisors may be transferred from one part of a Congressional district to another, so that the voters may have no acquaintance with the men who are "guarding, supervising and scrutiniz ing" their election. THE WORK OF THE SUPERVISORS. The existing law has permitted John I. Davenport and men like him to per petrate many outrages, but it is inof fensive in comparison with the present bill. It simply authorizes the Feder al officers to oversee the count of bal lots and to formulate and forward their conclusions to be used as evidence. The new bill requires the supervisors to perform all their duties, and besides 1. To challenge the right ot any person to be registered, and to "re quire" of the State or local officer that he do not register the name or that he strike off the name of any person al ready on the register. This is a distinct interference with State elections. There is only one reg istry list, and if a person's name is stricken off he is thereby disqualified from voting for State officers. The bill, therefore, permits these Federal officers to forbid citizens of a State to vote for their own local officers. A supervisor can thus affect even a town election. 2. The supervisors are to have access to all books of registration, etc., for the purpose of making evidence for a con test. 3. They are to make a house-to-house canvass of persons registered in all cities having 20,000 inhabitants or up ward. They may be accompanied by deputy marshals. In cities of 100,000 inhabitants or upward they are to make a thorough house-to-house canvass five weeks before election. In other words, the local registers are to be given to Republican campaign workers to en able them to spy upon people, to intimi date them as Davenport has done in New York. and to bring their own voters to the polls. The Republican campaign, State and National, is to be conducted at the expense of the Gen eral Government. 4. The supervisors are authorized to administer the State statutory oath if the local officers decline, and to exam ine persons offering to vote as to their qalifications under the State law. If the State officers, obeying their own law, refuse to receive a proffered ballot, the Federal officers may first di rect them to do so, and then, on refusal, may themselves receive and deposit the ballot. As the law of this State requires the names of all candidates to be on one ballot, the Force bill gives to Federal officers the power to receive or reject votes for State, county and town offi cers. The law of this State is further in fringed by the Force bill because it requires the presence of the supvisors within the polling-place, the reformed ballot law excludes all persons but the local elections officers and watchers. This provision is one of the most im portant features of the new law, for it keeps the workers away from the voters, it is intended by the Lodge bill that this safeguard shall be broken down, and that, in the form of super-. visors, Republican workers, paid by the Federal Government shall have access to the voter.. The proposed secrecy of the new law is also infringed because the super visors are authorized to accept reject ed ballots, to write upon them the names of the voters offering them and to count them. Thus the Republican supervisors may hold their own elec tion, receiving the votes of those found to be disqualified by State officers. All this will be done in epposition to State laws, which requires secrecy and a single ballot box, and it will affect the result of State as wvell as of Federal elections. 5. They are to have access to the court records of naturalization, and to make lists of papers and to inquire into the right of citizenship of the persons named. Special supervisors, called "discreet" in the bill, arc to be detailed to prevent fraudulent naturalization. What can be accomplished under this power was shown in this city by Daven port in 1878, when he arrested many persons who were not tried, while 3,400 were kept away from the polls by in timidation and threats of arrest. The supervisors may use the deputy mar shals and the army in this nefarious work. The bill repeals or annuals all State. laws that are opposed to it. It directs the manner in which all ballots shall be counted. The super visors are to take part in the count. As there is only one ballot in this State, Federal officers would therefore count the votes for State, county and town oficers. If ballots for Congressman are found in the wrong box in States where there are more boxes than one, the chairman of the supervisors shall take charge of them. THlE B~OARD OF CANVASSEnS. The Board of Canvassers of the Con gressional vote is a body which makes the canvass for the United States. It is appointed by the Circuit Judge, who is dragged into party politics by nearly every section of this extraordinary bill. The Board consists of three, only two of whomr are of the same political party. IIf their certificate differs from that of the State oflicers their candidate is to be seated. If the opposing candidate appeals it must be to the Circuit Judge, who is consequently a returning officer. The decision of the Judge is to be con clusive with the Cierk of the House. The arrangements for counting in Re publicans are almost perfect. The appropriations for the payment of all the expenses of this Federal inter ference in 'State aftfairs, including the pay of chief supervisor, supervisors and deputy marshals, are made permanent. This is anticipatory of the refusal of a Dertocratic House to appropriate money for the execution of the law. FURITHIER INTERFERENCE wITRI sTATEs The Circuit Court is empowered to Icompel State Boards to rectify alleged errors in their count. In this State, again, this would affect the vote for Governor. The reformed law of this State is in fringed by the requirements that a notice shall be pasted on its single bal lot-box reciting that ballots for Repre sentative in Congress are to be deposit ed there. As the single ballot contain ing the names of all candidates to be placed in this box, the effect on the illiterate voter's mind will be ver.y con fusing. The supervisor may go into the vot ing both with a voter to assist him in the preparation of his ballot, if a State election officer may go for the purpose of giving needed instructions. Under the present law juries are drawn by the Clerk of the Court and a Commissioner of another political party. The bill repeals that law, which was intended to secure non-partisan juries for the trial of political offences, and provides that juries shall be drawn by Commissioners appoint by the Cir cuit Judge, who may all belong to the same party. Again the judiciary is drawn into party politics, and made subservient to campaign mangers. FEDERAL PUNISIIMENT OF STATE OF FICERS. The bill provides for the punishment of State officers for violation of State laws and provides that the army and deputy marshals shall keep the peace. This is in direct contravention to the instructions given to a United States marshal by Mr. Evarts in 1868, when he was Attorney-General of the United States. A chief supervisor may also concentrate the deputies and the troops at any place where he may allege that he expects a breach of the peace. Such in brief is the abstract of the bill by which the Republican party proposes to assume complete control of all elections, State as well as Feder al.--New York World. A STEAMER ON NIAGARA'S VERGE. The Auful Plunge Only Averted by the Anchor. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., July 31. One hundred and fifty excursionists -men, women and children-on the steamer, "Ella H.," narrowly escaped going over the falls Monday. She runs between Port Day and Buckhorn Island. Yesterday, owing to the low stage of the water, she was obliged to run around Green Island. Just as she was rounding the island in the swiftest part of the river at that point the engine gave out. The anchor was heaved overboard, but it failed to catch for some distance, dragging along the rocky bottom. When it did finally get hold the boat was under such headway that the bulkhead to which the hawser was attached, was torn from its fasten ings. When nearly the whole chain had been run out the end became knotted in the hole in the bulkhead and held the boat. The trouble with the engine proved to be a defective valve, which was soon repaired, and the boat was again got under headway, but so great was the force of the current that it took fifteen minutes to get to where the anchor had caught, a hundred feet up stream from the boat. There were about 150 passengers on the steamer and a pleasure barge at tached to it. There was a terrible scene of confusion. Women fainted, children screamed, and men bade each other good-by. The boat was only a short distance above the falls when it stopped. A Farmers' Ticket. LINcOLN, Neb., July 3.-The inde pendent State convention, which met here at noon yesterday, did not conclude its labors until after 4 o'clock this morning, a candidate for Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings not being elected until after 3 o'clock. The full ticket is as follows: For Governor-J. HI. Powers, of Hitckcock county. For Lieutenant Governor-W. HI. Deck, of Saunders. Secretary of State-M. C. Mayberry, of Pawnee. State Treasurer-J. V. Wolfe, of Lan caster. Auditor-John Beatty, of H~olt. Attorney General-G. W. Edgerton, of Douglass. Commissioner Public Lands and Buildings-W. F. Wright, of Nomaha. Superintendent of Public Instruc tion-Prof. D. Almond, of Furnace. As soon as the State convention had adjourned the delegates to the First Congressional convention assembled and unanimously nominated ex-Senator C. H. Van Wyck for Congress. The platform declares for free silver coinage and a money circulation equal to $50 per capita of the population, against land monoply and alien land ownership of roads and telegraphs and favors liberal pensions. The Farmers' Alliance controlled the convention. Rushing the Census Count. WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 28.-At the census bureau 15,000 clerks, working in two shifts, night and day, on the electrical tabulating machines, com plete 1,750,000 names every twenty-four hours, except Sunday. At this rate, Porter estimates that the rough count will be completed by August 20. Porter says he is not trying to get out the figures in time for the passage of a reapportionment bill at this session, and that as a matter of fact they may be too late for it, since the rough count may not be published for use until Sep tember. But the determination of this question lies with Speaker Reed, and he has not, as yet, vouchsafed any in formation as to what he will do. Hie seems to be awaiting the figures, know ing that it is entirely possible that they will not show such favorable results to the Republican party as the Bepubli cans have been expecting. The Kansas Corn Crop Ruined. KANsas CITY, July 31.-Special dis patches from various points in Western Kansas state that the hot winds of the past three days have materially reduced the already low condition of the crops in the State. The winds have literally cooked the corn. This condition pre vails along the Missouri, Pacitic from Concordia to the western boundary. East of Concordia for one hundred miles the yield of corn may under favor able conditions amount to 5 or 10 per cent. of last year's crop. From this point east to Atkinson it will be 20 per cent. of last year's if rain falls. A Fatal Mine Explosion. PAnIs, July 29.-A terrific explosion occurred in a colliery at St. Etienne to day by which it is feared a large number lost their lives. Thirty-eight of the men have been brought to the surface, and they are all seriouly burned. One hun dred and forty miners are still below, and it is impossibe yet to ascertain their condition. Boycotts the Roycott. ArorsvA, GA., July 30.-The Augusta Exchange, representing the business in terests of Augusta, to-day adopted a pre amble and resolutions denouncing the Lodge bill and the proposed boycott. Peabody Scholarship. GREENVILLE, S. C.. July 28.-MisE Laura Buist, Greenville. L. E. Jones Edgefield, J. II. Teague, Laurens, have been awarded the Peabody scholarships at Nashville. A MAD RE1U1BLICAN. REPRESENTATIVE STRUBLE OF IOWA DENOUNCES SPEAKER.REED. Ills Public BuIlding Bill Persistently Snubbed and Ignored-He had Better Treatment from Carlisle--MClammy Mourns With those who Mourn. WASmIINGToN, July 29.-Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, from the committee on ap propriations, reported a joint resolu tion.providing temporarily for-such of the expenditures of the government as had not been provided for by the ap propriation bills which have already become laws. Passed. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Senate amendments to the sun dry civil appropriation bill, the pend ing amendment being one appropriat ing S250,000 to enable the secretary of the treasury, public printer and ar chitect of the capitol to acquire land necessary to provide additional accom modation for the government printing office. Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, moved concurrence in this amendment, pointing out the unsafe condition of the pressent building. Mr. Cummings, of New York, also advocated concur rence in the amendment.' Mr. Struble, of Iowa, said that he was in favor of suitable buildings for every executive department of the gov ernment, but he rose to speak on the question of public buildings as repre sented by the unfinished calendar of the House, upon which were 35 bills passed by committee of the whole, May 29, not one of which hat! been per mitted to be considered by the speaker of the House. le wanted to say (and he regretted that the speaker was not here to hear him) that he felt it an out rage on the judgment of the House that any one, be he speaker or member, should undertake to say that the House should have no opportunity to carry out that judgment. He had been a member of Congress for more than seven years, and he had labored earnestly to discharge his du ties. He represented Sioux City, Ia., twice during Democratic ascendency in the House, had the Democratic speaker to recognize him to move the passage of the bill for the erection of a public building in that city, and twice had the bill passed. It had been the pleasure of the President to veto the measures. He (Struble) wanted to say of Speaker Carlisle that he had never asked for recognition from that officer he had not been treated that courteously. He wanted to place in con trast with the kind treatment of Speak er Carlisle the treatment of the present speaker, not only towards himself but towards other members of the House. If the speaker had not sneered at them and ridiculed them, he had come near doing so. [Democratic applause.] The members had been treated as boys by the gentleman who presided over the House. He did not propose to stand this Sort of treatment any long er without protest. [Democratic ap plause.] Should the members continue to submit like cowards to the dictation of the speaker of the House, or should they not combine in an honest attempt to have recognition at the hands of the speaker? [Democratic applause.] He was for rebellion against the ruling of the speaker in regard to public build ing bills. Mr. Cannon advised Mr. Struble that he had better have withheld his attack on the speaker, and Mr. Perkins de fended the speaker's action, contending that it was in line with the action of former speakers. Mr. Struble said the statement that the members wvith public building bills had not been fairly treated was a fact that he alleged before the House and be fore the country. He said that the work of this House during this session had been grand work. He would go from this hall and argue that this Hiouse had done grand work and had passed many bills for which it was entitled to the gratitude of the country, but that did not deter him from protesting against the indignity put upon him and other memberg, and during the last admin istration bills were approved for pub lic buildings in the South in places of 7000 inhabitants and yet the Sioux City bill had been vetoed. That was passed and gone now, but, as he had said be fore, the speaker of the last IHouse had never failed to give courteous treat ment to the members of the Republi can side. [Democratic applause.] If a few members on the Repubhlcan side of the House had received courteous treatment, he and many others had not, and he did not hesitate to say so. Mr. McClammy, of North Carolina, in a one-minute speech, expressed his pleasure at being in company with his distinguished brethren, Struble, E wart and Coleman. This was feudal day, and he was glad to enter the lists. This was the time when you could speak with your mouth open. [Laughter.] One month ago he would have been glad to have shaken hands across the aisle with Brother Struble. [ Laughter] Bt. this was no time for regret. Ile was glad to knowv that the~ occasion had arrived wvhen the gentleman could have the courage of his convictions. [Renewed laughter, which broke out louder when Mr. McClammy alluded to Mr. Struble's failure to secure a re nomination by speaking of the beauti ful tones of the dying swan] Mr Richardson's motion to concur was lost-49 to 59-and the amendment was non-concurred in. The next amendment which gave rise to discus sion was that appropriating $800,000 for the purchase of a suitable site for a building for the Supreme court, east of the Capitol and opposite the new li brary site. The amendment was non concurred in. The committee, having concluded consideration of all other amendnments, recurred to the considera tion of the irrigation amendment, which had been laid over temporarily. It was agreed that the debate on this amendment should be limited to four hours, and the committee then rose and the House, at 4:50, adjourned. Too Much Chloral. ATLANTA, Ga., July 31.-- The Rev. Henry 1Howren, of Charleston., common ly known as "the reformed journalist," had three appoiintments to preach here last Sunday, but lie failed to come to time. There was something the matter with him, and as lhe entered Walker Street Church to fill the first appoint ment, it became apparent. ile walked in, sat awhile and then wvent out, and it was annonnced that he would 1ot preach. To friends, Mr. Hlowren stated that lhe was sufferiing from the effects of chloral that he had taken. Hie said1 he had been working very hard of late and was not feeling well when he left home, Carolina. lie had taken cloral at different times since leaving home, and the drug had so upset his mind that he could not preach. Mr. Hlowren was taken by a friend and carried to Decatur, where he lies this afternoon sulfering with considerable fever.-M acon Telegraph. The Alliance Wing,. ATLANTA, July 30.-The Democrats of the 4ti Congressional district to-day nominated C. Moses, an Alliance man, WASHiNGTON MATTERS. Etllcts of the Alliance on the Organiza tion of tie Next Congress. WASHINGTON, July 30.-Representa tive Dibble was one of the fifteen mem bers of the House who requested leave of absence to-day. Objection was made to the granting of the request until it could be ascertained whether the pres ence of those members will be needed to make a quorum. Satisfactory evi dence was probably produced on that subject, for all the applicants for leave, Mr. Dibble included, have left the city. The House could be ready to adjourn in less than two weeks, provided the Senate is willing to dispose of the tariff bill without insisting upon pressing the Federal election bill. A warm wave arrived here to-day and Congressmen, fearing a hot spell, are very anxious that a final adjourn ment shall be reached with as little de lay as possible. While the weather continued cool and pleasant Republi can Senators who are interested in the force bill talked of keeping Congress in session until October or even later. It remains to be seen how long they can stand the temperature among the nineties. The Democrats are deter mined to fight the force bill if they have to remain in continued session until the 4th of next March. It is among the possibilities that there may be at least thirty-five or forty Farmers' Alliance men in the next Congress, and in consequence there is a wide field for speculation as to who will control the organization of the 52d Congress. The indications are that the Demo crats may have a majority, and upon that basis some speculation has been indulged in as to who will succeed Speaker Reed in the chair. Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, has been slated by many for that position, but the probability of a radical change in the Georgia dele gation renders such an outcome ex tremely doubtful. With six or more Farmers' Alliance men from Georgia. Mr. Crisp may have considerable diffi culty in securing the nomination be cause the Alliance men will hardly participate in a Democratic causus, but will form a third party and pro bably attempt to control the organiza tion or dictate terms to the majority. Gen. Hatch, of Missouri, is also men tioned as an aspirant for the Speaker ship, should the Democrats regain con trol, and as he will have but few if any Alliance men in his delegation he may defeat Mr. Crisp. Of course this is simply speculation among Democratic members who have been re-nominated and are sure of re-election.-News and Courier. THE REPUBLICAN SENATE CAUCUS. A Plan to Let the Democrats Tire Them selves Out. WASIINGTON, Aug. 1.-The Republi can Senatorial caucus a few nights ago was attended by about thirty members. Mr. Sherman presided and was made the official medium of communication to the press. His statement was that the caucus had determined to fix the hour of meeting of the Senate at 10 o'clock, and will continue the session as long as possible, no hour for adjourn ment being fixed. The tariff bill is alone to be considered for several days and then displaced for a time at least, by the river and harbor bill, From Senators it was learned that the object of this policy is to endeavor to force the De.11ocrats to show their purpose toward the bill--whether or not it is to be one of delay. The Re puolicans hope by this movement to tire~ out the D,3mocrats who are to be left to do all the talking except when it is considered necessary to answer some point made in a speech on that side. The only other measure to be consid ered are the appropriation bills. The river and harbor bill may be taken up before the close of this week, should Senator Frye, chairman of the Commit tee on Commerce, who will bein charge of the measure, consider that it is best to (o so, the same policy will be observ ed with respect to that bill as towards the tariff bill-the Democrats will be permitted to do most of the talking. According to all reports the election bill, as prepared by the committee on elections, was discussed incidentally. Messrs. Hoar and Spooner, it is said, spoke of the necessity of taking action on that subject, but nothing was done. In all that was said by the Senators there was no announcement by any of them whether or not they would sup port the bill in the Senate. Upon the subject of the proposed rule to limit debate, the general ex pression of opinion is said to have been that as yet the Democrats have mani fested no purpose to filibuster, and the necessity for the enforcement of such a rule has not arisen. The Farmers for Pattison. The lion. Leonard Rhione, master of the Pennsylvania Grange. has issued an address to the farmers of that State, in which he urges them to vote for the Hon. Robert E. Pattison, the Demo cratic nominee for Governor. lHe says Mr. P'attison while Governor had labor ed incessantly for the rights and pro tection of the people, whilst Mr. Dela mater, the Republican nominee, failed to keep his promise to vote for the far farmers' tax bill in the State Senate, but on the other hand spoke and voted against it. In brief, Mr. Rlhene says Mr. P'attison is a candidate on the side of the people, wvhilst Mr. Delamater 1s the candidate of the corporations and corrupt powers of the State. With the labor and farmers' or ga n iza ti ons against him it would seem Senator Delamater has a hard road to travel. Five Negroes Killed. ALBANY, Ga., July 2.-Yesterday morning there was a negro excursion from Waycross, over the Savannah, Florida and Western railroad, to Al bany, and by the time they reached their destination there was in the neigh borhood of fifteen hundred. negroes, most of them drunk, and all along the line they were fighting and raising Cain generally. Several fights among them resulted in their being locked up here last night as they were returning home, being very well loaded with whiskey. A general riot ensued at Camilla,_ a small station below here, and from in formation gathered here this morning, live niegroes were killed outright, and three timhes that number were wound Catholics Become Lutherans. TraiN, July 28.-The entire Catholic congregation of Mont Orfano, near Mrgozzo, has been converted to Luth eranism. About one hundred and twenty persons made a confession of that faith yesterday in the old Catholic church now occupied by these newly made Lutherans. This edifice is now under police protection. This whole sale change of faith was brought about through a disagreement between the congregation and the pastor touching the question of the latter's salary. Philadelpnhia Times. WEATHER FOR AUGUST. flicks Forecasts the Storm Periods and Cold and Warm Waves. The forecasts for August by Rev. Ira C. Hicks, the weather indicator of St. Louis, prepared under date of July 18, for his monthly scientific journal Word and Works, are as follows: The month will open with high tem perature prevailing generally except, perhaps, a rising barometer with falling temperatare in sight on the Western flank of storm movements, developing to the West the last days of July. These disturbances will have reached the East by about the 2d, touching every part of the country with much bluster and some rain, and followed by some relief from heat-a wave of cooler, fresh air. The reactionary days follow ing this period are the 6th and 7th, with the moon's last quarter on the morning of the 7th, and the equinox of Mercury on the 8th, which facts necessitate a warm wave from about the 5th, break ing into much storminess in its East ward progress, and followed by cooler, cloudy days. Remember, all such phe nomena is progressive from West to East. The 12th is the central day of the next regular storm period. With Mercury's influence still in force, it will begin to grow warmer about the 10th-the temperature rising higher and higher for successive days, until from the 12th to 15th, Northwesterly storms will appear and change the or der of things. The new moon falls on the morning of the 15th, about which time the hardest storms may occur, followed promptly by a marked fall of temperature. The 16th is the central day of two to three days of secondary developments, which means a warmer temperature moving Eastward, break ing into more or less local storminess. Whiffs of polar air will break in through the gates of the Northwest upon the heels of this storminess. The last regular period is central on the 23d, and the moon's trst quarter falling on the morning of the same day, to gether make the most promising out look for rain, from the 22d to 25th, during the whole month. The period is certain to be ushered in by warm and rising temperature, which condition will remain and grow until storm cul minations break up the order and bring in reversed conditions of the mercury. After the storms of this period the op pressiveness of summer nights will be broken. Reactional tendencies, com bined with full moon, fall centrally on the 29th. iLf much sustained heat and dryness occur in August, with a cessa tion of electrical activity in the atmos phere, chances will be increased for earthquake disturbanses, on and near the danger and reactionary days of the calendar. As previously announced the disturb ing presence of Venus has been very marked throughout July, but all must confess a "growing tendency to empty storminess and barren bluster." Many parts have felt the touch of approach ing dryness. We quietly but earnestly advise our readers to watch and work against possible future exigencies. A SICKENING SLAUGHTER. Three ChliI ren put to Death on a Rail r6ad Bridge. PATTERSON, N. J., July 29.-A slaughter occurred on the Erie Rail road bridge over the Passaic River this evening. Five children, returning from a blackberry expedition with well-filled baskets, started to cross the bridge. When nearly across the bridge, which is without rail or footpath, the children saw a train approaching on the west bound track and stepped upon the east bound track, but a fast passenger train came rushing toward them. The chil dren were paralyzed wvith fear and couched together directly before the approaching train. The engineer saw them, but dared not apply the brakes suddenly as that course might have sent the train through the bridge. It was an awful moment. People on the bank of the river shouted to the children to get be tween the tracks, but their cries were useless, for the heavy locomotive struck the group ;of little ones and hurled three of them upon the other track dead. The engineer was overcome at the appalling sight. He had strength left, however, to stick to his post and stop the train as soon as it had crossed the trestle. The passengers left the cars and strong men and women felt a sick ening feeling creeping over them as the remains of the three slaughtered children met their gaze. .Jennie Drews, aged 13; Nellie Warren, aged 10, and Mamie Warren, her sister, aged 8, were dashed to death. Jane Warren, aged 13, was frightfully injured. Willie Warren was hurled into the river, where he was found alive in about a foot of water. The WVarren children all belonged to the same family, and when the parents of the unfortunate children were noti fied their anguish was such as to move even the policemen and undertakers to tears. No Place for Turnnels A Scotchman, who had been employ ed nearly all his life in the building of railways in the Highlands of Soctland, come to the United States in his last years and settled in a new section on the plains of the far west. Soor. after his arrival a project came up in his new home for the constructioa of a railroad through the district, a:2d the Scotchman was applied to as a man of experience in such matters. "Ihoot, mon !" said he to the spokesman of the scheme; "ye canna build a railway across this kentry!" "Why not, Mr. Ferguson ?" he repeated with an air of settling the whole matter; "why not? And dinna ye see the kentry's as fiat as a ilure, and you have naw place what ever to run your toonnenels through ?" -San Francico Argonaut. Engaged in a Good Work. The Farmers' Alliange, the old Green back party and the labor party have united in Kansas with the object of de feating the re-election of John J. In galls to the Senate of the United States. The Legislature now stands 150 Re publicans and 6 Democrats. The new combination hopes to secure a majority of the next Legislature. They are working and are meeting with great success. The recent visit of President F olk, of the National Alliance, has stirred up the farmers as they have never been stirred up before. Senator Ingalls is frantic and is wvriting to his friends at home urging them to get to work. _________ A Magnificent Bailroad. "But while in Mexico, on my last trip," says a drummer in the St. Louis Globe-emocrat, "I had my breath taken away when 1 saw what I guess is the most magnificently constructed railroad in the world. I refer to the Mexican Gulf Road, where ties are made out of the finest mahogany and bridges built of marble. The waste seems criminal, but the builders are actuated by motives of economy, as they find the mahogany and marble along the track side. The road hasn't cost much to construct, but if the ma terials were appraised at St Louis or New York standard of prices the total would mont up in the millions." SUGGESTION TO ALLIANCEMEN Mr. John S. EL.rd, of Alabama. on Co operation. Co-operation is one of the principal powers desired to be utilized by the Alliance; and each primary should have a committee to make suggestions to it on where,-by what and on what co-operation can be successfully inaug urated. Get down to business by co operation. Use it for all it is worth. Use it now. How about your neigh borhood gin? Who owns it? Who patronizes it? Whatt is made by its operation? In many localities forty Alliancemen have a thousand bales ginned and packed on that neighbor hood gin. Say they pay $2.50 per bale. That is $2.500. A ginnery of that capacity is only worth 81,600. It would not cost over $900 to operate it so as to gin the 1,000 bales. Let each man take 52,50 stock for each bale he will have ginned in a stock company. Organize it under the law. Have the paper fixed right. Get your charter. Buy the gin or put up another. Operate it and at the end of the season it is your gin. Next year your ginning will cost you nearly nothing. This year you will have the cost of your ginning in a good investment that costs nothing, but is good for every cent you would have paid out. Every neighborhood gin should belong to the Alliance of the neighborhood. Do not wait until September, but commence now. Get everything ready by the first of August. You can get money on your joint note. Each signer has stock for his security. Every share is worth $150 per $100 as soon as the gin starts. Do not put this off by having a committee. Put down for as much stock as you would pay for ginning, each and every one, and a sufliciency will be subscribed. Then on that basis, have a committee to carry the work to consummation. If you have the ginnery, then move for ward on the warehouse. Have an Al liance warehouse with every Alliance man taking stock in the ratio of bales he stores. Charge a fair price and get your money back in dividends either in warehouse property or cash at the end of the season. Do not put in charge of it a man who is clever and honest but incompetent. Select one who is honest and competent and will do the work faithfully. Run it on business principles, not favoritism. If to be built put your warehouse as near the railroad as possible and arrange for a railroad switch before you start its con struction. If not on a railroad, put at the steamboat landing so as to facilitate handling at least cost. See about this before you start. It is the principal and most important. point to be looked after. Put your means in improved methods for handling rather than beau ty or appearance of building. Look at the expense and costs. By reducing these to the minimum you increase the profits to the maximum. In all under takings select men who are competent and reiable-have adaption and litness for that kind of work. These two un dertakings should first command your consideration. With them accom plished, have your committee on co operation investigate and report what other plan should be adopted to assist and benefit the primary. Get down to business, brethren. "The gods help those who help themselves." JonN S. BIRD. DEATH IN A CYCLONE. One Hundred Houses Demolished and Six Lives Lost. LAWRENCE, MASS., July 26.-A cyclone the first of any considerable iportance within memory in New England, and one equalling in destruc tive power those so frequently reported from Western comrmunities, visited the suburb, South Lawrence, this forenoon at 9:45 o'clock, and in fifteen minutes had killed nine people, seriously injured from fifteen to twenty, slightly injured at least twenty more, cut a swath through a thickly populated section 200I feet wide and a mile long, rendered 500 people homeless. destroyed or greatly damaged from '75 to 100 buildings, mostly dwelling houses, levelled a beautiful square of over 500 trees and entailed a property loss now estimated at $100,000, all of which was uninsured against damage against wind and storm. The calamity is the greatest which has visited Lawvrence since the fall and burning of the Pemberton mills, thirty years ago. South Lawrence is the section of the citj lying south of the Merrimac river. At this point the main line of the Boston and Maine railroad takes a sharp turn to the eastward and, fol lowing the Merrimac, crosses the river at Bradford. Railroad bridges connect the suburb with the city proper and with the railroad lines north. The point is a busy railroad junction, and in the vicinity were many wooden houses, occupied mainly by well-to-do me chanics, and among these the air fiend spent his greatest fury. The northern boundary of the belt of destruction was but three streets south of the lofty mills with their busy throngs of thousauds of workers, showing how narrow was the escape from a more appalling loss of life and property. The Bill is Dead. WAsmIMOTON, July 28.-The cold, palsied hand of dleath has been laid on Mr. Lodge's bantling. "The bill will never come up. The Senate committee which is considering it know very little about it, and the other Republican Senators know less. No caucus has been called and none is likely to be for weeks." This was the way in wvhich a Repub lican Senator, who is in a position to know, put his foot upon the statement which was given out to-day for the benefit of the Republican radicals who are thirsting for nodding plumes and gleaming bayonets at the polls, that the consideration of the bill was nearly completed and that it would soon be reported to a Republican caucus. The fact is that the bill is nowhere near complete, even to the satisfaction of the ive Republican members of the committee on elections.-New York Herald. Congressman1 Dargan Resigns. To the voters of the 6th Congressional D~istrict of South Carolina: After delib eration I have determined not to be a canidate tor re-election to Congress, and I hereby announce to you this die termination. In retiring from the public service it affords me pleasure to say that I shall carry into private life no recollection of any personal grievance of any kind wlatever, bout only a grateful remem brance of your generous support during the many years. Assuring you that. however widely we may now or hereafter differ on questions of l'ederal or State policy, I shall always feel a warm interest in your welfare atnd hapines, private and social, as well as poitical,1I am very respecttully your fellow-citizen. G. WV. )I:n;-N D arlington. S. C'., .July , 29,189. Senteniced to Hang. (OREENvIL LE, S. C., July 28.-Jud3ge Izar to-day sentenced Win. L. Howard. white, to be hanged Sept. 26. for the murder of Ben Ross, in the mountamns f ths county, in February, 1882. (M:O.iESSED TO MIIRDEl. STRANGE DEATH BED REVELATIONS OF A DYING TRAMP. A Boston Murder Mystery of Thirty Years Ago Explained-The Dying Murderer Tells His Bloody Tale Without Any Remorse. BOsTOs, July 29.-A murder of thirty years' standing has been revealed by the death-bed confession of the mur derer, and the mysterious disappear ance of a rich Boston liquor dealer is thus accounted for. On the night of December 13, 1859, James Martin start ed from his place of business with the intention of walking across the bridge to his home in Charlestown. That was the last seen or heard of him until the story of his murder was brought to light a few days ago. His dog appear ed on the doorstep of his house the morning after the murder wet with blood. That was the only clue to the cause of the man's disappearance. As he was known to have a large sum of money with him on the night he disap peared, it was believed that he was murdered, but, as his body was not found, his case was included in the long list of unsolved mysteries. Edward Callahan returned from the West a few days ago, bringing a solu tion of the mystery and confirming the theory that Mr. Martin had been mur dered for his money. In 1885 Mr. Calla han was in the Southern part of New Mexico in the employ of the Central Pacifnc Railroad Company. One evening when walking along the track he came upon a very dilapidated tramp who was. dying. He said his name was "Tip" McLaughlin, and knowing that death was at hand he gave Mr. Callahan a history of his life, which was a continual story of crime. His murderous career in the West created quite a sensation, and his es capes from death through influential friends secured for, him the nickname "Tip" McLaughlin. In some way he got into -the Masonic order, and he made his boast that he had got the "tip" and the "grip," and now he was all right. Afterward he killed a man in Sacramento, was tried and sentenced to be hanged. When he was taken out of court the officer in charge of him said: "Well, McLaughlin, I guess we will take a drink before I lock you up." So they went into a liquor saloon and Mc Laughlin sat down to play whiskey poker for the drinks, while the officer looked on. Pretty soon McLaughlin said he was going out of the back door , a minute to the closet and he did go, and the officer did not catch him. He got down to San Francisco and there he shipped on a trading schooner; go ing down the coast some 300 miles and then went off into Southern California. Mr. Callahan, in one of his talks with McLaughlin, said he spoke of return ing to his home in Boston and that brought out the confession of the mur der in 1859. The story is told in Mr. Callahan's own words: "He asked me if I remembered any thing about the disappearance of a man named Martin. I did not ramember much about it, althoug h I had heard my cousin, who was a friend of Mar-. tin's, speak of it. Then he told me that he was one of the men who helped kill Martin and throw him over the Charlestown bridge, between the draw and Tudor's wharf. He said that Mar tin had a dog with him and that the animal fought so hard in defense of his master they had to throw him over board. to defend themselves. McLaugh lin did not tell me who were his com panions in this murder, and I did not ask him many questions, for I had no heart to talk with a man who would take from another what he could not gives-his life. He informed me that he made his escape'from Boston by ship ping with a Maine captain for a voyage around the Horn with a load of lumber, and made me promise that if I ever came to Boston I would tell his story to the Martin family and their friends. "His story was not like a deathbed confession of repentance. He see'ned to have no remorse or feeling, but simply related the story without any appearance of possessing a conscience. I har:dly believed his story. He told it with bravado, and he was so weak and so near death that I regarded his yarn as the raving of a dying man. But I did not forget it. At that time I thought I should come to Boston at an early date, so I did not write anything about the matter, choosing to walt un til I came home. I delayed coming East from month to month and only arrived a few months ago. When Mc Laughlin died he was buried like a dog with no ceremony, for there was no clergyman to perform one. I simply took some rough boards from the rail road fence, made the best box I could, and in this he was consigned to his grave, which will be unmarked forever. I never learned his Christian name nor anything about his history, except what he told me about his crimes I simply knew him as 'Tip' McLaughlin." Too Thick to Thrive SP.IRTANBURtG, S. C., July 30-It looks as if Spartauburg wilt have two daily papers. A solid company has been~ formed, and sent for a commission under the name of the Spartanburg Publishing Combany. The capital is $10,000, and the corporators are Joeph Walker, D. E. Converse, W. E. Burnett, S. J. Simpson, WV. A. Law, John H. Montgomery and John B. Cleveland. Suficient stock has been subscribed to ensure the establishment of the paper and the town has not yet been canvass ed. The paper will be devoted to the interests of Spartanburg. and the edi tor will be Mr. J.'Conway Garlington, of Laurens, an experienced newspaper man. At the same time the stock of the Ilerald is being doubled under their present charter, and Mr. Jones will is sue a daily in addition to the weekly aer now issued. H~e secured the stock that he asked for. It is not ap parent that two papers can succeed here, but the war is waging. A Barbarous Law Revived. LONDON, July 30.-The Times says that the Rlussian Government has order ed the application of the edicts of 1882 against the .Jews. These edicts have hitherto been in abeyance. According to thlese laws the Jews must henceforth reside in certaini towns only. None -.ill be permitted to own and or hire it for ag riultural p~urposes. Thle order includes within its scope towns and hundreds of villages that have large Jewish popula tions. No Jew will be allowed to hold shares in or work mines. No Ihebrew will be allowed to enter the army, to practice medicine or law, to be an engi neer or to enter any of the other profes sions. They will also be debarred from holding posts under the Giovernment. ThI e en forcement of the edicts will result in the expulsion of over one million per sois from the country. Burned Alive. CINcINnATI, July 29.--A Times-Star special says that incendiaries set fire to the residence of the Rev. David Plumb, in Cale, Indiana, early this morning, and destroyed it. Mr. Plumb was fatally burned, and his wife and three children perished in the llames. Mr. Plumb is a prominent Methodis minier.